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Slow File Infector Spies on Victims
Sourabh Kadam contributed to this blog. In the middle of 2012 McAfee Labs observed the complex malware XDocCrypt infecting documents,...
What is Ransomware?
Imagine that you want to pull up a certain file on your computer. You click on the file and suddenly...
McAfee Adds Flash Exploit Detection to NSP 8.2
Adobe Flash vulnerabilities and exploits have worried users and security professionals for many years. The situation today remains serious. A...
InstallCube: How Russian Programmers Turn Adware Into Cash
We often observe applications bundled with ad-displaying programs to generate revenue for those products. These are not necessarily unethical, but...
WhatsApp with End-to-End Encryption?
Throughout the past year, many mobile messaging apps have come under fire for inherent security vulnerabilities. This month, WhatsApp (one...
Should You Use Near-Field Communications?
Have you ever wondered what kind of superpower you’d have? I’ve always wanted to send messages and ideas with my...
Doxxing, The Internet and How You Can Lock Down Your Data
There exists, in this world of ours, a term describing the public release of a person’s identity against their will...
What is Pharming?
. For a lot of kids today, mash-ups are all the rage—whether it’s combining two videos, two songs, or two...
Youth & Social Media
The digital world is here to stay. The youth are growing up with and making internet technologies, such as social...
Is This Your Photo? No, It’s SMS Spam With Mobile Malware
One of the most important concerns of Internet users is privacy. For this reason one of the most effective phishing...
At McAfee, Protecting Customers Takes Precedence Over Seeking Headlines
One question I often hear is “When will McAfee publish a report on the latest threat?” It seems to be...
Win32/Syndicasec Used In Targeted Attacks Against Indian Organizations
During the last couple of months, we’ve observed several RTF exploits that target Indian organizations. The first RTF exploit was...
McAfee’s New Digital Safety Program at the 2014 CED Fall Policy Conferencece
This week I had the privilege of visiting Washington, D.C., to attend the Committee for Economic Development (CED) Fall Policy...
Bypassing Microsoft’s Patch for the Sandworm Zero Day
This is the second part of our analysis of the Sandworm OLE zero-day vulnerability and the MS14-060 patch bypass. Check out...
Exploit Kits Improve Evasion Techniques
Exploit kits are toolkits that malicious developers use to take advantage of client-side vulnerabilities, targeting web browsers and programs that...
Bypassing Microsoft’s Patch for the Sandworm Zero Day, the Root Cause
On October 21, we warned the public that a new exploitation method could bypass Microsoft’s official patch (MS14-060, KB3000869) for...
Chinese Trojan Hooks Macs, iPhones
“Distrust and caution are the parents of security”–Benjamin Franklin A recent threat targeting Chinese users of Mac OS X and...
App Inventor Enables the Easy Creation of Malicious Apps
In today’s increasingly connected society, heaps of new mobile apps are cropping up every day. It no longer takes a...
